My mother came to live with me in Tanjong Katong when I was pregnant with my first child in 1996.
I was living alone, as my husband then was working overseas. Before moving to Singapore, my mother lived in Sydney with my sister, as she had been separated from my father, who was still living in Kuala Lumpur, for more than 10 years.
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